really random and not so important question in the Vimeo General Discussion Forum

SaraLily 1 year ago

anyone who knows this can answer...its that random.

just curious - you know on the right side of a video it has different sections? Like thumbnail choices and its stats? ok what exactly does the "referrers" part mean? usually a bunch of links pop up. what exactly are those?

yeah...i was just curious
islebehere 1 year ago

i believe "referrers" is what "details" used to be... to see where your video is being linked from
dunno 1 year ago

Yea and for some reason a lot of mine look like this:
vimmie.formaji.org/comments/islebehere
Pam Newman 1 year ago

hahaha, mine too!
hªnnes 1 year ago

haha, i think that one is my fault. it was a script i wrote way back, now when search engines spider my site that referrer shows up.
it's fixed.
chriskalani 1 year ago

That means a link or the video itself was embedded on a site and that is showing you where views are coming from outside of vimeo.
Ben Millett 1 year ago

and sometimes even from vimeo.com (which seems redundant, but who knows).
hªnnes 1 year ago

wow, i never gave it much taught.
i have shitloads of these: file//C|WINDOWSSystem32slideAppscreenSaver.swf
is there something like a vimeo screen-saver??

i also dicovered i'm entry number 3 when you search for "motocross" on this search engine:
arianna.libero.it/video/abin/video?from=3&query=motocross
pretty cool, huh :)
Jimi Heffernan 1 year ago

when u search msn live, the #1 hit for dorm pornography is my video 'dorm asshole'

which isn't porn...really..
SaraLily 1 year ago

so weird!! so if i have links there it could mean someone is using my video somewhere? thats kind of strange to think...whatever cool.
Khamis Hammoudeh 1 year ago

Or that theres a link on a webpage to your video... like from a search engine etc... :)
Gentry 1 year ago

I've stopped checking the referrers. Google searches, myspace bulletins, and webforums I've never heard of...

Rarely get views from my own sites. :)